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Preston Williams, who retired in June 2002, became the Houghton Professor
in 1971. He has taught previously at four historically black colleges: Johnson
C. Smith University, Knoxville College, North Carolina College for Negroes
(now North Carolina Central University), and Lincoln University. He has
served as associate chaplain at Pennsylvania State University and Protestant
chaplain at Brandeis University. Prior to coming to Harvard Divinity School,
he was the Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor at Boston University School of
Theology. In his years at Harvard, he has served in
various capacities beyond his professorial role: He was Acting Dean of the
Divinity School in 1974-75, and the acting and first director of Harvard's W. E. B. Du Bois
Institute from 1975 to 1977. Since 1998 he has been director of the Summer
Leadership Institute, a program that brings religious leaders from urban
settings to Harvard for two weeks of intensive classes on community
development. His fields of interest are Christian ethics, social and
economic justice, human rights, and African American experience. He is an
ordained Presbyterian USA minister.
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